Chapter: Escape

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With the truck packed up with food and water for Randall, it left Rick and Daryl to do last minute preparations before they head out to drop Randall off somewhere far away from the farm.

Nakkita was in the house when the shouting began outside. It caused her with everyone else to run outside where they saw T-Dog coming out of the shed. Daryl and Rick stood before T-Dog with his hands on his hips, staring at the shed and shaking their heads.

"What's wrong?" Lori asked.

"Randall's missing." Glenn informed them.

"Missing? How."

"How long's he been gone?" Hershel asked.

The group stood around the empty shed where Randall once was.

Nakkita stood by Daryl and she grabbed his right forearm making him to look down at her with a serious yet concern expression. His eyes were flickering around their surroundings, trying to see if there were any sort of evidence around to pick up to help him track down Randall.

Questions were being thrown around as everyone couldn't figure out how this could've happened.

"The cuffs are still hooked. He must've slipped 'em." Rick said as he stepped out of the shed to look around the doorframe to see any force entry in or out of the shed.

"Is that possible?" Carol questioned with disbelief.

"It is if you've got nothing to lose." Andrea came out of the shed.

"The door was secured from the outside." Hershel informed them as he showed them the padlock.

"This doesn't make any sense." Nakkita whispered.

"Yeah, something isn't right." Daryl mumbled to her as he didn't believe that Randall could escape on his own, or figure out a clever way to do so.

"Rick! Rick!"

Shouting from the side of the house from out of the woods had the group turn their attention in that direction to watch Shane storm out of the woods toward them with an angry expression. It was the blood that was dripping from the bridge of his nose and mouth that got everyone to stare with wide eyes.

"What happened?" Lori exclaimed at the sight of Shane's condition.

"He's armed! He got my gun!" Shane shouted.

"Are you okay?" Carl asked as he stared with his mouth agape.

The group stood back with a mixture of disbelief and shock at the sight of Shane as he got closer. Shane seem similar to a cage animal as he couldn't sit still in one spot as he paced back and forth in short steps.

"I'm fine. Little bastard just snuck up on me. He clocked me in the face."

"All right, Hershel, T-Dog, get everybody back in the house. Glenn, Daryl, come with us." Rick waved his hands about as he gave orders.

Nakkita turn to Daryl as he loaded up his crossbow with a bolt then he look down at her. She welcome a quick kiss to her lips then Daryl went to stand by Rick with Glenn following suit. The three waited as Shane stepped up in long steps to T-Dog.

"T, I'm gonna need that gun." Shane said to T-Dog with his hand held out.

"Just let him go. That was the plan, wasn't it, to just let him go?" Carol quickly said as she held Sophia back against her.

"The plan was to cut him loose far away from here, not on our front steps with a gun." Shane took the gun from T-Dog then he turn away to follow after Rick into the woods.

"Don't go out there. Y'all know what can happen." Carol kept trying to reason with them.

"Get everybody back in the house. Lock all the doors and stay put!" Rick shouted over his shoulder as he kept walking.

"Let's go, back in the house." Andrea said as she began to push Carol and Maggie toward the house.

"Okay." Maggie began running back to the house.

Nakkita got into the house where she began to help Hershel and Patricia to lock up everything, even the windows. She then made way to the area where Daryl and her items were located to see that Xavier was still peacefully sleeping in his baby carrier. She bent down to press her lips on top of his forehead then sat down on the couch.

All they could do was to wait for the others to come back with or without Randall in their hold. For now, Nakkita just wanted Daryl and the others to be safe out there as it wasn't just Randall lurking out in the woods.

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Night time took over the daylight.

Everyone was anxious as they moved around the dining room and living room, waiting for someone to come back.

Nakkita had the baby holder strapped to her chest with Xavier sitting in it, who was looking at everyone with wide blue eyes. It was as if he could sense how everyone was tense in their seats and he was trying to figure out why.

"I'm going after them." Andrea stood up from her spot.

"Don't. They could be anywhere. And if Randall comes back, we're gonna need you here." Lori quickly stated from her spot at a chair by the side door.

The screen door was heard opening then footsteps coming toward the sitting room that they were in.

Nakkita stood up and she move forward as Daryl came in first then Glenn behind him. The group stared at the two as they stepped further into the room. Daryl reached out to brush his thumb on Nakkita face then his attention was on everyone else.

"Rick and Shane ain't back?" Daryl asked with raised eyebrows.

"No." Lori answered with a shake of her head.

"We heard a shot." Daryl informed the group as he looking at them to see that they didn't hear anything.

"Maybe they found Randall." Lori shrugged her shoulders.

"We found him." Daryl replied.

"Is he back in the shed?" Maggie questioned from her spot on the couch.

"He's a walker." Daryl answered.

"Did you find the walker that bit him?" Hershel questioned as he stood back with his hands in his slack pockets.

"No, the weird thing is he wasn't bit." Glenn told them with a confused and curious facial expression as he couldn't figure it out just like the rest of them.

"His neck was broke." Daryl put in.

"So he fought back." Patricia pointed out.

"The thing is, Shane and Randall's tracks were right on top of each other. And Shane ain't no tracker, so he didn't come up behind him. They were together." Daryl explained what he found out from the woods with Glenn.

"Would you please get back out there, find Rick and Shane and find out what on earth is going on?" Lori moved out of her seat to come stand before Daryl, desperately asking.

"You got it." Daryl nodded as he wanted to find the others too.

"Thank you." Lori pressed her hand against his shoulder as he walked by.

Daryl walked outside with Glenn and Andrea following the two. Their footsteps stopped on the porch causing Nakkita to walk out to see what was wrong. She saw them simply standing there on the porch and staring out at the fields.

"Oh my god." Nakkita gasped, which seem to draw everyone else's attention that was in the house to look out the door to see what was going on.

Coming across the field was a herd of walkers that they definitely can not face. There was no way they will be able to fight all those walkers. There has to be a hundred or more heading straight toward them.

"Patricia, kill the lights." Hershel said.

"I'll get the guns." Andrea quickly ran back into the house.

Nakkita moved to stand by Daryl as she rested her left hand against Xavier.

"Daryl."

"I need you to load up." Daryl quickly told her to which she tapped her right thigh where a pistol was already in the holster making Daryl to nod at her.

"Maybe they're just passing, like the herd on the highway. Should we just go inside?" Glenn nervously asked.

"Not unless there's a tunnel downstairs I don't know about. A herd that size would rip the house down." Daryl replied as he stared at Glenn then looked back out at the field.

"Carl's gone."

"What?" Daryl turned around as a freaked out Lori came bolting out of the house.

"He-he was upstairs. I can't find him anymore."

"Maybe he's hiding." Glenn tried to say, not wanting it to be true that Carl is missing.

"He's supposed to be upstairs. I'm not leaving without my boy."

"We're not. We're gonna look again. We're gonna find him. Come Sophia." Carol assured her as she led Lori and Sophia, back into the house to thoroughly search.

"If he isn't here, he most likely went out to find his father and Shane. As of late, he has been very daring and adventurous." Nakkita lowly whispered to Daryl as he glanced at her to take in her words.

A sigh and a shake of a head, Daryl didn't want to believe that, but he had a feeling that his wife was most likely right. His eyes were back on the field where he was trying to figure out how they were going to go about this. Though first, Daryl wanted to get Nakkita and Xavier off the farm. He will always protect them first.

Soon Andrea came out of the house with the bag of guns where everyone started to grab one. Daryl handed Nakkita another handgun, wanting her to be very prepared for this moment. Daryl watched as Nakkita went into the house then came back out in a few seconds. There Daryl saw that she put on headphones over Xavier's ears. But also, she got in her hands her compound bow and her arrows attached across her back.

On a run, Daryl found child size earmuff headphones to block out anything loud if the group had to fight and Nakkita got Xavier on her.

"I wish that you didn't have to fight."

"It was going to happen sooner or later." Nakkita said as she stood in front of Daryl.

The two looking into one another's eyes, searching them. Daryl reached up to brush away a strand of her hair that escaped from the messy bun she had on top of her head.

"Maggie." Glenn eyes stared at Maggie in surprise as she picked up a rifle to fight along with them.

"You grow up country, you pick up a thing or two." Maggie replied as she loaded up the gun.

"I got the number...it's no use." Daryl said as his eyes flicker out to scan the fields.

"You can go if you want." Hershel said as he was loading up his own gun.

"You gonna take 'em all on?" Daryl eyebrow rose toward the older man.

"We have guns. We have cars." Hershel replied as he loaded up the shotgun.

"Kill as many as we can, and we'll use the cars to lead the rest of them off the farm." Andrea said, coming up with a plan.

"Are you serious?" Daryl couldn't believe that they were thinking about fighting instead of thinking of a way to escape off the farm.

"This is my farm. I'll die here." Hershel said as the final straw.

"All right. It's a good a night as any." Daryl said as he turned to Nakkita to press his lips on top of Xavier's head then pressed his lips against her forehead.

"Get your backpack and mine. I got the Triumph. I'll swing by to get you once I take a few out." Daryl softly told her then turned away to hop over the railing.

With that plan, Nakkita went into the house to grab the hiking bag that contained her items. Knowing that Daryl's items won't fit on the bike too, she threw some of his items into the hiking bag. Xavier's items were already mixed with Nakkita's items. She pulled the backpack on then she went out on the porch where she notched a metal head arrow into the compound bow.

Her eyes focus on Daryl riding around on the Triumph toward the barn that was now going up in flames. Nakkita watched as T-Dog, Andrea, Glenn, Maggie and Jimmy were driving the vehicles around to take out walkers. Gunshots echoing as they were taking out the walkers around the barn.

Nakkita watch as the barn fire went higher and higher. Some reason she got a feeling that was Rick's doing. Hopefully Carl was with him too.

Seeing walkers getting closer to the farmhouse, her eyes flicker to the old SUV. She knew that they have to get out of there.

"Get prepare to run out." Nakkita shouted to the rest that were still in the house.

Nakkita walked around the porch where she pulled back the taut string of the high tech compound bow then let the string go. The metal head arrow hit a clean shot to the forehead of a walker that came too close to Hershel as the older man stood out on the lawn, shooting his shotgun.

Her eyes flicker back to see Lori, Carol and Sophia outside where Lori shouting about not finding Carl at all.

Looking away, Nakkita kept firing arrows after arrows, taking walkers out. She gently began humming where she heard Xavier let out a whimper as he could clearly sense the chaos happening around them.

"Start getting into the SUV. NOW!" Nakkita shouted to which Carol ran into the house to get Beth and Patricia.

Nakkita quickly wave for them to go then began to make her way off the porch to head toward the SUV. She ran ahead of them as she was a quick runner, but she turn around when she heard screaming.

Her mouth dropped at the sight of walkers got a hold of Patricia. Lori manage to get Beth away. Nakkita saw Carol running off with Sophia away from the SUV and they disappeared when a horde of walkers came around. Though T-Dog came by with his truck, slamming through a few walkers to pick up Lori and Beth while Andrea got out of the truck to go after Carol.

Nakkita quickly ran around, taking out walkers after walkers that were beginning to surround the SUV.

Hearing a motorcycle, Nakkita eyes glance to her right to see Daryl coming straight toward her.

"Get on!" Daryl shouted at her as he got closer.

Nakkita slid right on and hit his back causing him to floor it. Her left arm around his waist while her right went up to hold Xavier to her. Her eyes staring out around her to see more and more walkers surrounding the land. The others seem to be driving off the farm causing Daryl to head down the dirt road, dodging walkers on the way out.

Looking back, Nakkita stared back at the farm that got taken over. There was no turning back now. Their safe place was now gone and they were back on the road again.

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